UNANNOUNCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unannounced mean? 

• UNANNOUNCED (adjective)
  The adjective UNANNOUNCED has 1 sense:

1. without warning or announcement

  Familiarity information: UNANNOUNCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNANNOUNCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without warning or announcement

Synonyms:

unannounced; unheralded; unpredicted

Context example:

a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night

Similar:

unexpected (not expected or anticipated)

 Context examples 

When tea was over and Mrs. Fairfax had taken her knitting, and I had assumed a low seat near her, and Adele, kneeling on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us with a ring of golden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we might not be parted far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr. Rochester entered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle of a group so amicable—when he said he supposed the old lady was all right now that she had got her adopted daughter back again, and added that he saw Adele was prete a croquer sa petite maman Anglaise—I half ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection, and not quite exiled from the sunshine of his presence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)